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Full Title

Managing the Infosphere Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion

Author(s)

Stephen D. McDowell, Philip E. Steinberg, Tami K. Tomasello

Edition
ISBN

9781439900987, 9781592132799, 9781592132805

Publisher

Temple University Press

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

Managing the Infosphere examines the global world of communications as a mobile space that overlaps uneasily with the world of sovereign, territorial nation-states.  Drawing on their expertise in geography, political science, international relations, and communication studies, the authors investigate specific policy problems encountered when international organizations, corporations, and individual users try to “manage” a space that simultaneously contradicts and supports existing institutions and systems of governance, identity, and technology. The authors argue that the roles of these systems in cyberspace cannot be fully understood unless they are seen as mutually constituting each other in specific historical structures, institutions, and practices.  With vision and insight, the authors look beyond the Internet to examine the entire networked world, from cell phones and satellites to global tourism and business travel.